CSE 484 / CSE M 584: Computer Security (Spring 2016)

Course Location and Time

• Lecture: MWF 3:30-4:20pm, EEB 125
• Section AA: Th 1:30-2:20pm, JHN 075
• Section AB: Th 2:30-3:20pm, JHN 075

Course Staff

• Franziska Roesner (Franzi), Instructor -- franzi@cs


• Kevin Chang, TA -- kc55@cs
• Thomas Crosley, TA -- tcrosley@cs
• Viktor Farkas, TA -- vfarkas@cs
• Bo Wang, TA -- tom2013@cs

Email everyone: cse484-tas@cs.washington.edu

Office Hours

• Franzi: Mondays, 4:30-5:30pm (or by appointment), CSE 654
  Exceptions: Wednesday 3/30 instead of 3/28; Wednesday 6/2 instead of 5/30


• TA Office Hours: (beginning week of 4/4)
• Thursdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, CSE 021
• Fridays, 2:00-3:00pm, CSE 021

Required Textbook

Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know, Daswani, Kern, and Kesavan, ISBN 1-59059-784-2

You can find it online through the UW Libraries here.

Topics

In this course, we will cover topics including: the "security mindset", threat modeling, software security, cryptography, malware, web security, web privacy, smartphone security, authentication, usable security, anonymity, physical security, and security for emerging technologies.

For more details, see the course schedule.

Prerequisites

(CSE 326 or CSE 332) and (CSE 351 or CSE 378)

You should have maturity in both the mathematics of computer science and in the engineering of computer systems. This means that you should: have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms; be comfortable writing programs from scratch in C and Java; be comfortable writing and debugging assembly code; and be comfortable in a command-line Unix development environment (gdb, gcc, etc). You should also have a good understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and computer networks. Most importantly, you should be eager to challenge yourself and learn more!

Acknowledgements

Some of the course material was developed with support from Intel.